Sir Jim Ratcliffe is ready to support the Revival of Manchester United by Ruben Amorim – but wants guarantees that he certainly wants to stay.
The Deel-owner of United wants to support his boss in the summer transfer market.
But the mixed messages from Amorim left Ratcliffe and feared that the Portuguese can decide that the reconstruction task is too much for him.
Amorim revealed last week that he might be forced to go aside almost seven months after the next fired Erik ten Hag.
He said: “It is a decisive moment in the history of the club. We have to be very strong in the summer and be brave because we will not have this next season.” If we start like this, if the feeling is still there, we have to give space to different people. “
But in the construction of the 1-0 defeat of Friday evening against Chelsea, Amorim insisted that he would not stop.
Sunsport understands that Ratcliffe is worried that the former sporting Lisbon boss can decide enough that it is enough after a chaos campaign in which he said he blames himself for creating what he describes as the “worst team of the history” of United.
Ratcliffe sees in Amorim a similar kind of character for himself – the kind of loose cannon that changed a global petrochemical giant from its Ineos company and became a billionaire.
But he wants to be sure that the manager will see at least the remaining two years of his contract – instead of leaving United in an even deeper mess.
There are worries that even obtaining a Champions League place by Te Triumphing in the Europa League final with Tottenham in Spain may not be enough to prevent the Portuguese chef from walking away.
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He has already stated that following the European elite might be too much for a team next season, he said he “not scared”.
That followed last week's 2-0 Premier League defeat against West Ham at Old Trafford.
Since he completed his investment of £ 1.3 billion in the Red Devils for an interest of 27.7 percent 15 months ago, Ratcliffe has supervised some brutal costs cuting at the club.
A maximum of 450 jobs can be lost and so Savage are the cuts that Amorim pays for 30 members of his back room staff to go to the Bilbao final.
Ratcliffe had even warned that the finances of United were so bad that the club was in danger of bust.
But money will be found to finance the proposed £ 60 million of attacker Matheus Cunha van Wolves – with Ipswich Vooruit Liam Delap also a target of £ 30 million.
The club also wants a new keeper and another defender.
In the meantime, the stars from our own soil such as Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo could be sold to pick up around £ 100 million, with various other team players who are also dumped to raise more money.
Amorim gets a big word from Ratcliffe, Chief Executive Omar Berrada and technical director Jason Wilcox about Who Stays, who goes and which new talent will be brought in.
But only if he convinces them that he is willing to stay for the long term – unlike she is looking for a third new manager in just under a year.